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Arjouni, Jakob

Pseudonym for the German author and dramatist Jakob Bothe. He was born as Jakob Michelsen in Frankfurt am Main as the son of dramatist Hans Günter Michelsen and publisher Ursula Bothe, and later formally adopted his mother’s surname as his own. He grew up in Frankfurt and Ober-Roden in Hesse, matriculated from the Odenwaldschule elite school in 1983 and subsequently settled in Montpelier in Fr...

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Goldy Bear Schulz

Gender: Female

She is 30-something years old and divorced; her ex-husband is usually referred to as ‘The Jerk’. Gertrude ‘Goldy’ Bear is blond, short in stature and a bit plump. To support herself and her 11-year-old son, she starts a catering firm in Colorado, but time after time is disturbed by murders, says Diane Mott Davidson. Luckily, Goldy is assisted by police officer Tom Schulz, whom she eventually marri...

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